He attended eighth grade at Roland Park Middle School, then two years at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1984, Tupac's family moved from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland. Tupac's godfather, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a high-ranking Black Panther, was convicted of murdering a school teacher during a 1968 robbery, although his sentence was overturned. Mutulu Shakur was apprehended in 1986 and subsequently convicted for a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck, during which police officers and a guard were killed. Other family members who were involved in the Black Panthers' Black Liberation Army were convicted of serious crimes and imprisoned, including Tupac's stepfather, Mutulu Shakur, who spent four years among the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
His parents, Afeni Shakur-born Alice Faye Williams in North Carolina-and his birth father, Billy Garland, had been active Black Panther Party members in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Ī month before Tupac's birth, his mother Afeni was tried in New York City as part of the Panther 21 criminal trial. I wanted him to know he was part of a world culture and not just from a neighborhood." Tupac had an older stepbrother, Mopreme "Komani" Shakur, and a half-sister, Sekyiwa, two years his junior. Shakur's mother explained, "I wanted him to have the name of revolutionary, indigenous people in the world. While born Lesane Parish Crooks, he was renamed, at age one, after Túpac Amaru II (the descendant of the last Incan ruler, Túpac Amaru), who was executed in Peru in 1781 after his failed revolt against Spanish rule. Túpac Shakur was born on Jin the East Harlem section of Manhattan (New York City).
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